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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XX1 settle upon any of the lands of said Territory. It notified all persons so offending that they would be speedily removed therefrom by the In-dian agennts, and that, if necessary, the aid and assistance of the mili-tary would be invoked to carry into execntion the laws of the Vnitetl States in such case made and provided. Upon the recommendation of this department, a proper disposition of troops was made by the War Department along thz line between the Indian Territory and Eansas, to pr e~enut nauthoriaed persons from en-tering the Territory, and details were made for the arrest and removal of sucll intruders as might be found within its borders. These. precautions resoltedin the arrest,, by the military, on or about the 15th of Ma)- last, of one D. L. Payne, the recognized leader of the movement, and some eleven of his followers, mho had established a camp at apoint abont 40 miles east of Fort Reno, and about a mile and a half south of the Xort.Il Fork of the Canadian. Pnrsuant to the order of the Secretary of IVar, the intruders were conducteil ooutside the Territory and there discl~nrgecl, with a warning not to return. Onthe 15th of July last I'ayylle and some twenty associa.tes rrere again discovered in the Indian Territory; were again arrested by the Gt~ited States forces, and, in pursuance of the order of the President, tnrned over to the United States marshal for the western district of Ark;~.usas, to be held for pronecotion nmler the United States laws relating to in-trnclers in the Indian country. The prisoners were si~bsequentlyre leased on bail to appear (or trial at the November term of the Bnited States district court. In this eonneclion I desire to call attention to the reoommendatioa, hereinbefore made nuder the head of 'Llegislation," for an amendment to the laws relating to trespassers npon Indian reservations. YAN CARLOS AGENCY. The rednetion of a wild, roving, defiant, and hostile tribe to a condi-tion of obedience to, and dependence on, the United States Goveru-ment, and the organization from its own members of an Indian police force, which, for six years, has rendered remarkably efficient service, is Dhe work which has been accomplished in the case of the San Carlos Apaches. That they are inclined to agriculture is shown by the perse-vering efforts made to construct irrigating ditches and. raise small fields of grain, and that they are also ready to have their children educated is shown by their repeated requests that a school might be furnished them. A boarding school building is now in course of erection, for which the Indialis are manufacturing the adobes, and steps have been taken to have a subtantial dam built and suitable ditches laid out by a wm-petant engineer, ~vhiehw ill &ord these Indians an opportunity to make some progress toward self-support. They are bewming discouraged with the slight suceess which has fol-lowed their own undirected and unskillful attempts to open ditcheil |
